"The Immaculate Conception of Mary could be called a gift that the Father gives to the Son. Mary is certainly saved by the Son, but in this there is a kind of accompaniment of the Son's work by the Father. Like a trial before the trial. Like the certainty that the Father gives to the Son on his journey, that everything will be fine. The original sin from which we are all marked has the property of giving rise to new sins. In the Immaculate Conception, Mary receives the task of proclaiming the ever-greater purity of the Son and his divinity. She is like a wedding ring that the Father gives to the Son, a pledge of the success of the work of redemption."